Perhaps women were once so dangerous they had to have their feet bound.
Those of us in the first American generations have had to figure out how the invisible world the emigrants built around our childhoods fits in solid America.
In a time of destruction, create something.
A new darkness pulled away the room, inked out flesh and outlined bones. My mother was wide awake again. She become sharply herself - bone, wire, antenna - but she was not afraid. She had been pared d...
The black well of sky and stars went out and out and out forever; her body and her complexity seemed to disappear.
You can't eat straight A's.
You're too young to decide to live forever.
We're all under the same sky and walk the same earth; we're alive together during the same moment.
Be careful what you say. It comes true. It comes true. I had to leave home in order to see the world logically, logic the new way of seeing. I learned to think that mysteries are for explanation. I en...
Hunger also changes the world—when eating can't be a habit, than neither can seeing.
The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.
Allen Ginsberg instructs: First thought, best thought. Oh, to have my every spontaneous thought count as poetry! No draft after draft like a draft horse.Clayton Eshleman, laughing, said, 'First though...
You must not tell anyone, what I am about to tell you.
The day was a great eye, and it was not paying much attention to me now.
Do the right thing by whoever crosses your path. Those coincidental people are your people.
If you should decide during your old age that you would like to live another five hundred years, come here and drink ten pounds of this sap, they told me. But don’t do it now. You’re too young to deci...
Mothers who love their children take them along.
His Good list outstripped the Evil list; Good may always preponderate in this method of reckoning.
The villagers were speeding up the circling of events because she was too shortsighted to see that her infidelity had already harmed the village, the waves of consequences would return unpredictably,...
To me success means effectiveness in the world, that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world - that I am able to change it in positive ways.
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